Brendan Walsh, SVP of Partner Relations at 1901 Group LLC, sits down with Justin Warren & John Walls for AWS re:Invent 2019 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV.
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https://siliconangle.com/2019/12/06/qa-federal-agencies-modernize-backup-dr-strategies-hybrid-infrastructure-reinvent/
Q&A: Federal agencies modernize backup, DR strategies with hybrid IT infrastructure
Federal agencies are beginning to embrace digital transformation. Changing the way they protect data has led them down the incremental path for migrating to cloud computing environments. But of course, this “incremental” part of the strategy means that they still have tons of on-premises resources. And they will for a long time.
Using a hybrid data IT solution — a combination of cloud and on-premises resources — helps organizations improve dynamic backup and disaster/recovery strategies while ensuring that data remains secure.
To meet the demand for flexible disaster recovery and backup, especially for hybrid environments, in federal agencies, IT service management company 1901 Group LLC recently advanced its disaster recovery and backup as a service offering. To do so, it leveraged technology from Cohesity Inc.’s DataPlatform and DataProtect technologies and the AWS GovCloud. Cohesity provides the on-prem support for the federal agencies, and Amazon Web Services Inc. provides the cloud-native, multi-tenant instance.
“In order to modernize a very large, complex IT environment, assets, systems, services, multi-locations, various data centers, multiple data classifications … the Cohesity product has allowed us to start incrementally by doing a disaster recovery or a backup on-premise,” said Brendan Walsh (pictured), senior vice president of partner relations at 1901 Group LLC. “Once you start getting the data backed up properly, prepped for disaster recover properly, you can also start migrating data toward the cloud. And particularly we’ve been working with the AWS GovCloud.”
Walsh spoke with John Walls (@JohnWalls21), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren (@jpwarren), chief analyst at PivotNine Pty Ltd, during the AWS re:Invent event in Las Vegas. They discussed the 1901 Group, Cohesity’s DRaaS and BaaS solutions, and AWS FedRAMP. (* Disclosure below.)
[Editor’s note: The following has been condensed for clarity.]
Walls: You’re doing [cloud migration] with the help of a Cohesity, a software data management solutions provider. So let’s talk a little bit about Cohesity, as well and your relationship, how that works?
Walsh: So in our management service offering portfolio, one of the things that we have been using Cohesity for is helping our customer create or start-up disaster recovery or backup services capability. And 1901 Group has been packaging, marketing, selling that DR as a service and that backup as a service to our federal state local customers.
Warren: Walk us through how you are using Cohesity to help public sector organizations transform themselves to use this kind of as-a-service back up and disaster recovery.
Walsh: So in order to modernize a very large complex IT environment, assets, systems, services, multi-locations various data centers, multiple data classifications … the Cohesity product has allowed us to start incrementally by doing a disaster recovery or a backup on-premise. Once you start getting the data backed up properly, prepped for disaster recover properly, you can also start migrating data toward the cloud. And, particularly, we’ve been working with AWS GovCloud but also AWS’ commercial cloud.
Warren: So, explain a little bit about how you helped these agencies to change the way they think to be able to use this as-a-service approach.
Walsh: So, the scale-out capability that Cohesity provides allows us to buy technology capacity nodes as we need them. So we don’t have a large capital expenditure upfront as orders come in; as agencies purchase, as we grow, we can add to that capacity incrementally. And their pricing model allows us to work with our agency customers and predict costing and pricing for next year, two years out, or three years out. It’s a pretty important thing.
Walls: We’ve heard a lot about a major theme, this transformation versus transition. And in terms of government users, how do you get them into the transformation mindset when you have those obstacles you just talked about?
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Brendan Walsh, SVP of Partner Relations at 1901 Group LLC, sits down with Justin Warren & John Walls for AWS re:Invent 2019 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV.
#reInvent #1901Group #theCUBE
https://siliconangle.com/2019/12/06/qa-federal-agencies-modernize-backup-dr-strategies-hybrid-infrastructure-reinvent/
Q&A: Federal agencies modernize backup, DR strategies with hybrid IT infrastructure
Federal agencies are beginning to embrace digital transformation. Changing the way they protect data has led them down the incremental path for migrating to cloud computing environments. But of course, this “incremental” part of the strategy means that they still have tons of on-premises resources. And they will for a long time.
Using a hybrid data IT solution — a combination of cloud and on-premises resources — helps organizations improve dynamic backup and disaster/recovery strategies while ensuring that data remains secure.
To meet the demand for flexible disaster recovery and backup, especially for hybrid environments, in federal agencies, IT service management company 1901 Group LLC recently advanced its disaster recovery and backup as a service offering. To do so, it leveraged technology from Cohesity Inc.’s DataPlatform and DataProtect technologies and the AWS GovCloud. Cohesity provides the on-prem support for the federal agencies, and Amazon Web Services Inc. provides the cloud-native, multi-tenant instance.
“In order to modernize a very large, complex IT environment, assets, systems, services, multi-locations, various data centers, multiple data classifications … the Cohesity product has allowed us to start incrementally by doing a disaster recovery or a backup on-premise,” said Brendan Walsh (pictured), senior vice president of partner relations at 1901 Group LLC. “Once you start getting the data backed up properly, prepped for disaster recover properly, you can also start migrating data toward the cloud. And particularly we’ve been working with the AWS GovCloud.”
Walsh spoke with John Walls (@JohnWalls21), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren (@jpwarren), chief analyst at PivotNine Pty Ltd, during the AWS re:Invent event in Las Vegas. They discussed the 1901 Group, Cohesity’s DRaaS and BaaS solutions, and AWS FedRAMP. (* Disclosure below.)
[Editor’s note: The following has been condensed for clarity.]
Walls: You’re doing [cloud migration] with the help of a Cohesity, a software data management solutions provider. So let’s talk a little bit about Cohesity, as well and your relationship, how that works?
Walsh: So in our management service offering portfolio, one of the things that we have been using Cohesity for is helping our customer create or start-up disaster recovery or backup services capability. And 1901 Group has been packaging, marketing, selling that DR as a service and that backup as a service to our federal state local customers.
Warren: Walk us through how you are using Cohesity to help public sector organizations transform themselves to use this kind of as-a-service back up and disaster recovery.
Walsh: So in order to modernize a very large complex IT environment, assets, systems, services, multi-locations various data centers, multiple data classifications … the Cohesity product has allowed us to start incrementally by doing a disaster recovery or a backup on-premise. Once you start getting the data backed up properly, prepped for disaster recover properly, you can also start migrating data toward the cloud. And, particularly, we’ve been working with AWS GovCloud but also AWS’ commercial cloud.
Warren: So, explain a little bit about how you helped these agencies to change the way they think to be able to use this as-a-service approach.
Walsh: So, the scale-out capability that Cohesity provides allows us to buy technology capacity nodes as we need them. So we don’t have a large capital expenditure upfront as orders come in; as agencies purchase, as we grow, we can add to that capacity incrementally. And their pricing model allows us to work with our agency customers and predict costing and pricing for next year, two years out, or three years out. It’s a pretty important thing.
Walls: We’ve heard a lot about a major theme, this transformation versus transition. And in terms of government users, how do you get them into the transformation mindset when you have those obstacles you just talked about?
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